AUSTIN, Texas A biomedical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin is using a concept called "grid computing" to allow the average person to donate idle computer time in a global effort to fight cancer.
Muhammad Zaman, assistant professor in biomedical engineering, recently ...

Toronto, ON (November 6, 2007) Canadian researchers expect to accelerate the war on cancer by tapping into a global network of hundreds of thousands of people who volunteer their idle computer time to tackle some of the worlds most complex problems.
The research team, led by Dr. Igor Jurisica...

A new version of the free and popular Access Grid Toolkit developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, is now available for download. //The Access Grid Toolkit is software that uses audio, video, data and text to enable distributed researchers to work together as if the...

Computers in the UK have been busy. They have tolled up 100,000 hours of time as they collaborated in an effort to stop and control the spread of bird flu.// Researchers eleven UK universities and research labs have been working overtime as they screened possible drug components that could be effec...

A new project, launched with the aim to combat AIDS will exploit the unused power of thousands of individual and business computers around the world to aid research and identify drugs used to combat the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).//
The Internet-based initiative, called FightAIDS@H...

...at three week intervals, for up to 4 treatment sessions for the correction of shallow to deep nasolabial fold contour deficiencies using a deep dermal grid pattern (cross-hatch) injection technique. The Sculptra(R)Aesthetic patients were followed for an additional 12 months. Sculptra(R)Aesthetic treatment...

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IBM earned the award for World Community grid , in essence the virtual equivalent in processing... devoted to humanitarian research. World Community grid gains its power from the aggregated spare computin...ovides the opportunity through the World Community grid to make a significant contribution to tackling the...

...ve the proper treatment," said Onik.
With 3-D transperineal mapping, a grid placed over the perineum (the area of skin between the rectum and the scrot...s to be removed -- about 50 compared to 10-12 in a TRUS biopsy. The mapping grid also allows the location of the tumor to be known much more precisely, allo...

...dreds of users across dozens of
sites, fulfilling 50 or so clinical trials. Another group of very large
cancer centers uses a federated Velos database grid to conduct dozens of
clinical trials that are supported by both government and pharmaceutical
sponsors at sites across the U.S.
-- South Korea, with...

...re widely used to evaluate the performance of
glucometers. The Clarke error grid is a plot of all data pairs categorized
into five discrete areas: A, B, C, ...blood glucose measurements from the ten subjects
in the study, Clarke error grid analysis of the study data showed that
Echo's Symphony tCGM System had appr...

...ative to the reference measurements was the
Clarke error grid, which has been widely used to evaluate the performance
of glucometers. The Clarke error grid is a plot of all data pairs
categorized into five discrete areas: A, B, C, D and E. The A and B areas
are the most clinically desirable zones and D an...

...uate the performance of Symphony
were Clarke Error grid analysis and Mean Absolute Relative Difference
(MARD). The Clarke Error grid analysis was designed to evaluate the
performance ...glucose monitoring (CGM) systems. The Clarke
Error grid is a plot of all data pairs categorized into five ...

... The images seen below as well as additional images are also available
for viewing at http://www.immunosyn.com/du-beforeandafter.html . A
specialized grid referenced Polaroid camera was used for photographic
documentation in order to prevent digital manipulation and to substantiate
authenticity of the im...

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The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by thinking small, microscopic in fact. Microscopic organisms from bacteria and cyanobacteria, to fungi and microalgae, are biological factories that are proving to be efficient sources of inexpensive, environmentally friendly...

This month, the City of Newark, Delaware became the first electric utility in the US to use a car to store and provide power for the local electric grid.
The vehicle, which runs on electricity alone, is specifically designed to store energy and improve grid reliability. University of Delaware ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State University's Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) has joined a prominent national coalition that seeks to transform the nation's electric power systems. CAPs is now a member of the GridWise Alliance, a group of 69 leading companies and academic institutions w...

In the human brain, cells talk to one another through the routine exchange of electrical signals. But when people fall into a deep sleep, the higher regions of the brain - regions that during waking hours are a bustling grid of neural dialogue - apparently lose their ability to communicate effectiv...

...oices about energy production, consumption, and use;
Analysis of Smart grid technology development, to improve the efficiencies of the nation's electri... and $875,000 for mathematical analysis related to the development of Smart grid technology.
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Stanford, CA$21.8 mill...

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... credential that is locked to that device.
"The spread of advanced worms like Conficker, and the recent infiltration of the country's electricity grid are just two examples highlighting the risks associated with connecting critical networks like those in SCADA systems," said Brad Davis, CEO at Uniloc...

... credential that is locked to that device.
"The spread of advanced worms like Conficker, and the recent infiltration of the country's electricity grid are just two examples highlighting the risks associated with connecting critical networks like those in SCADA systems," said Brad Davis, CEO at Uniloc...

...in Power Electronics and a world expert on electronic power supplies. "In its current form, the household CFL takes away the very benefit to the power grid that it was supposed to provide."
The Queen's innovation is timely, Dr. Jain adds, since widespread use of today's less efficient CFLs would reduc...

...y: Reducing the risk of microbial contamination from farm to table
Emerging infections
Plugging microbial activities and genomes into the energy grid
New concepts and strategies for vaccines
Updates on MRSA. Is nasal screening alone enough?
The connections between human, animal and environm...

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT ) has partnered with Penn State University to develop innovative solutions for the energy sector. As part of the corporation's commitment to tackling critical national energy challenges, Lockheed Martin will fund $400,000...

The University of Wisconsin's Condor software project will provide a component of a cutting-edge grid computing system at European research heavyweight CERN , the IDG news service reports.
CERN has a computing network with more than 100 sites in 31 countries, the center said. Among them it is...

Madison, Wis. — One computer just isn't enough. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, among other organizations, are increasingly turning to big groups of tightly networked computers that share tasks such as analyzing the human genome.
UW-Madison professors Wesley Smith and...

When the long-awaited Highway 151 bypass around Fond du Lac, Wis., opens later this year, vehicles traveling northbound will cross DeNeveu Creek on a bridge like no other in the country.
The fiber-reinforced polymer grid system could help to speed bridge-deck construction Externally, the bri...

...United States, tells SINC. 'Cellular automata' are mathematical tools used in artificial intelligence to track the movement of linked objects within a grid (in this case a map).
Millington says this model is able to represent landscapes over areas in excess of 1,000 hectares on a map with high spatial ...

... throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. With a 20-year-plus track record for product design, advanced engineering software, grid computing technologies and enterprise analytics solutions, Altair consistently delivers a competitive advantage to customers in a broad range of indus...

...and create unique nano- and micro-scale structures on the metal.
"During its brief burst, the laser unleashes as much power as the entire electric grid of North America does, all focused onto a spot the size of a needle," said Guo.
The unique nano-structures which are created from the laser affect...

... A tiny grid pattern has led materials scientists at the Nation...m covering a silicon wafer and then added on top a grid of antiferromagnetic strips about 10 nanometers th...vided real-time images of the magnetization within grid the structure, the team watched the...

...uctors in a wide variety of applications, such as power transmission, power grid reliability and advanced physics research.
One of the main challenges in...essfully demonstrated by U.S. power companies, and increased electric power grid reliability. NIST has research programs in both these areas. Improved HTS t...

...tosecond is to a second what a second is to about 32 million years. During its brief burst, Guo's laser unleashes as much power as the entire electric grid of North America does, all focused onto a spot the size of a needlepoint, he says.
The wicking process, which on Guo's metal moves at a quick one ce...

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...ting (with Stanislaw Ulam ) a purely logic-based automata, not requiring a physical body but based on the changing states of the cells in an infinite grid -- the first cellular automaton . It was extraordinarily complicated compared to later CAs, having hundreds of thousands of cells which could each e...

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